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AFC Junior Board


Mission Statement

The AFC Junior Board’s mission is to support and promote the critical issues and efforts of Advocates for Children through a variety of ways, including:
  • Serving as an advocate for quality and equitable public education
  • Providing input on AFC’s positions and raising visibility for the organization
  • Connecting resources (both financial and in-kind) to the organization
  • Organizing a variety of fund-raising projects that focus on the vital work of AFC
  • Making current and future New York City leaders aware of AFC and our programs.

Junior Board Members

Stephen Ahn
Neuberger Berman

Monica Asher
McDermott, Will and Emery

Rawia Ashraf
Simpson Thacher and Bartlett LLP

Jessica Berman
National Hockey League

Claire Buxton
Porter Novelli

Brian Chun
Misys Healthcare

Lisa K. Chun
Student at Columbia Business School

Seth Cohen
Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe LLP

Ryan Fisher
Innosight LLC

Ernie Grigg
The Allen-Stevenson School

Jessica Haber
Clifford Chance US LLP

Rebecca Hamlin
Student at Pomona College

Caroline Heller
Greenberg Traurig LLP

The Reverend J. Lee Hill, Jr
The Riverside Church in the City of New York

Samantha Hill
O'Melveny and Myers LLP

Jessica Hu
Administration for Children's Services

Sunitha Jaikumar
Patent Construction Systems

Avi Klein
Student at Columbia U. School of Social Work

Rachel Kravitz
Student at Brooklyn Law School

Jalin LaChapelle
Deutsche Bank

Jesse Mak
Premier Technology

Katherine McGovern
Weil, Gotshal and Manges LLP

Lucy McMillan
Arnold and Porter LLP

Will Meyer(ex officio)
Advocates for Children of New York

Catherine Meza
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver and Jacobson LLP

Eric Morrow
Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft LLP

Eileen Pizzurro
Morrison and Foerster LLP

Chandana Ravindranath
Student at Rutgers University School of Law-Camden Law

Marianna Schaffer
The David Rockefeller Fund, Inc.

Sara Shin(ex officio)
Advocates for Children of New York

Marc Silverman
United States District Court, Law Clerk

Elana Sinensky
Fried Frank Harris Shriver and Jacobson LLP

Gregory Straus
Morgan Stanley

Keren Tenebaum
DLA Piper US LLP

Jaime Wert
Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher

Elise White
Red Hook Community Justice Center

Tarra Zynda
Weil, Gotshal and Manges LLP

More Information

If you are interested in joining or learning more about AFC's Junior Board, please email Sara Shin at sshin@advocatesforchildren.org.



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